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President Donald Trump speaks at the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono, Pa., Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Trump once denied using this slur about Haiti and African nations. Now he boasts about it

7:36 PM on Tuesday, December 9

President Donald Trump admits he used the slur “shithole countries” during a private 2018 meeting with lawmakers to disparage Haiti and African nations

FILE - U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige speaks to reporters at the Education Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Terry Ashe, File)

Rod Paige, the nation's first Black secretary of education, dies at 92

6:02 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Rod Paige, the first African American to serve as U.S. secretary of education, has died at 92

Activists confronted a group of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in the largely Somali neighborhood of Cedar-Riverside in Minneapolis, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave)

Federal agents use pepper spray on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown

3:56 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Federal agents have used pepper spray to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listens during news conference with Australia's Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Richard Marles, Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the State Department, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

US military flies 2 fighter jets over the Gulf of Venezuela as scrutiny grows

3:38 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The U.S. military has flown a pair of fighter jets over the Gulf of Venezuela in what appears to be the closest American warplanes have come to the South American country’s airspace since the start of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign

FILE - Ambassador of Canada to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman listens during a First Ministers' meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, Jan. 15, 2025. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Canada's top envoy to the US will resign before review of free trade agreement

3:21 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Canada’s ambassador to the U.S. for the last six years says she’s resigning next year as the two major trading partners review the free trade agreement

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., joined at left by Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., speaks to reporters after a closed-door meeting with fellow Republicans, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate heads toward dueling partisan votes on health care, with each likely to fail

3:08 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The Senate is heading toward dueling partisan votes on health care this week

FILE - Georgia House Democrats walk out of the House Chamber in protest, after Senate Bill 185, which would outlaw spending on gender affirming care for transgender prisoners, was introduced at the state Capitol, April 2, 2025, in Atlanta. (Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

Judge orders Georgia to continue hormone therapy for transgender inmates

2:21 PM on Tuesday, December 9

A federal judge has ordered Georgia's prison system to provide hormone therapy for transgender inmates

FILE - Former FBI Director James Comey speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, June 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Justice Department challenges court order limiting access to evidence in Comey investigation

1:05 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The Justice Department has challenged a court order that complicated efforts to seek a new indictment against former FBI Director James Comey by making a trove of evidence off-limits to prosecutors

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Pope Leo XIV wave to journalists during their meeting in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope criticizes US bid to 'break apart' US-Europe alliance, insists on Europe role in Ukraine peace

12:45 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Pope Leo XIV is insisting that Europe must have a role in any Ukraine peace deal

President Donald Trump arrives for a signing ceremony with Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Two of Trump's peace deals at risk as fighting surges in Congo and at Cambodia-Thailand border

11:55 AM on Tuesday, December 9

At least two of several agreements aimed at ending global conflicts that President Donald Trump has hailed as evidence of his negotiating prowess are in trouble and at risk of collapsing

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth smiles as he walks to a secure room in the basement of the Capitol to brief lawmakers on how he handled a military strike on a suspected drug smuggling boat and its crew in the Caribbean near Venezuela Sept. 2, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Hegseth tells congressional leaders he is weighing release of boat strike video

11:31 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he's still weighing whether to release the full video of an attack on an alleged drug boat that killed two survivors

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, looks back at the media as he walks to meet Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Downing Street, London, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Ukraine's Zelenskyy improvises midflight to get out his message on a whirlwind European trip

8:55 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy used an improvised WhatsApp audio briefing during a rapid tour of European capitals to reaffirm that Ukraine will not surrender territory to Russia

FILE - Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado displays vote tally sheets during a protest against the reelection of President Nicolas Maduro one month after the disputed presidential vote which she says the opposition won by a landslide, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, file)

Appearance by Venezuelan Nobel Peace laureate María Corina Machado canceled on eve of prize ceremony

7:23 AM on Tuesday, December 9

A planned news conference by Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado has been canceled after a several-hour delay, a day before Wednesday's award ceremony in Oslo

President Donald Trump listens during a roundtable on farm subsidies in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Latest: Trump speaks on Americans’ economic worries and blames Democrats at Pennsylvania rally

5:20 AM on Tuesday, December 9

President Donald Trump road-tested his claims that he’s tackling Americans’ affordability woes at a Tuesday rally in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania

Nepal charges dozens and says corruption inflated an airport's costs by $74 million

5:08 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Former Nepali ministers, officials and a Chinese company have been charged with corruption in a case alleging financial irregularities inflated an airport's construction costs by more than $74 million

FILE - In this undated photo released by the State Border Guard Service, an officer inspects a balloon used to carry cigarettes into Lithuania, because Belarussian smugglers often use them to ferry the contraband into the European Union (State Border Guard Service via AP, File)

Lithuania declares national emergency over security risks posed by balloons from Belarus

12:19 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Lithuania's government has declared a national emergency over security risks from meteorological balloons sent from Russia-allied Belarus in recent weeks

People take off fish from net for their meal as they take refuge in Srey Snam, Siem Reap province, Cambodia Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, after fleeing from home following a fighting between Thailand and Cambodia over territorial claims. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodia vows fierce fight against Thailand in their escalating border conflict

9:26 PM on Monday, December 8

Cambodia and Thailand are engaged in renewed fighting, forcing tens of thousands to flee border areas

Miami mayor-elect Eileen Higgins celebrates at a watch party after winning the Miami mayoral runoff election, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Democrat wins Miami mayor’s race for the first time in nearly 30 years

9:05 PM on Monday, December 8

Democrat Eileen Higgins has won the Miami mayor’s race over a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump

Trump's speech on combating inflation turns to grievances about immigrants from 'filthy' countries

9:01 PM on Monday, December 8

At a nighttime event in Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump tried to emphasize his focus on combating inflation, although the issue couldn't quite command his full attention

President Donald Trump welcomes Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Takeaways from Trump's White House meeting with Saudi crown prince: Deals and bromance

2:37 PM on Tuesday, November 18

A jovial President Donald Trump has held a warm and friendly meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House

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